With the solar industry emerging from the turmoil of 2009, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the trends driving the market forward. In this session, GTM Research’s Solar Analyst Team will discuss the implications of their research findings on corporate strategy to help your company succeed in the increasingly dynamic solar market.
In this plenary session suppliers of the solar market will discuss how the conversation around solar has continued to move from simple comparisons of cost per watt to increasing the value of solar-generated kWh, and describe the role of suppliers in enabling the proliferation of PV to residential, commercial, and utility-scale market sectors.
It is undeniable that the U.S. solar market is on its way to dominating the global industry. What is still unresolved is who will lead this market. In this session, leading utilities, solar independent power producers and residential integrators will engage in a lively debate, each staking out their claim to be leaders in the largest market opportunity the solar industry has ever known.
- What are the competing feed-in tariff proposals, and what is the likelihood they will impact the PV market?
- How will feed-in tariffs impact renewable portfolio standard goals and REC prices?
- Understand how different proposed pricing
mechanisms work and how your company can best take advantage of fixed-price or market-based mechanisms.
- What characteristics do bank credit committees look for when deciding to invest in PV projects and technologies?
- Learn what your company can do to design and build bankable PV projects.
- Understand new developments around streamlining processes to speed solar project finance, increase consistency & predictability while improving project bankability.
- Understand the federal, regional and state-level
carbon regimes and what they mean for
your company.
- What role can SREC-based financing play in project development?
- What new revenue streams will carbon legislation create for PV companies?
Understand the roles that exist in solar distributed generation project development and the financing structures and models that are being used to develop such projects.
- Hear from structured finance executives and tax
equity investors about strategies for successfully raising a tax-advantaged project fund.
Learn how smaller developers can access large pools of capital to diversify project risk and
lower transaction costs.
- How are utilities evaluating utility-scale solar technologies?
- How are policies (state/federal RPS) evolving to foster a utility-scale solar market?
- Understand permitting, siting and financing challenges to utility-scale solar projects
- How will industry R&D evolve in the new economy?
- What new commercialization models will emerge to accelerate the transition
from basic science to product commercialization and launch?
- Learn from entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers and applied research and development centers about how innovators can more rapidly access the solar market through collaborations with R&D centers for development, testing, proof-of-concept and measurement of new technologies and systems.
Just as the fundamentals of solar economics have changed drastically over the last 12 months, so too have the characteristics that define a successful solar company. In this session, seasoned financial industry analysts and investment bankers discuss what corporate strategies and fundamentals they look for when evaluating companies and debate the future of solar IPOs, M&A and shareholder growth.
